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plural spadassinicides
(rare) The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
(rare) One who performs such an act. quotations
Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.
1921, Rafael Sabatini, “Chapter VI”, in Scaramouche, book III